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Keith Watenpaugh, assistant professor of Islamic history at Le Moyne College in
Syracuse, New York, warned: "Overt politicisation of higher education is afoot.
This dismissal is more to do with a creeping Islamism."

He said: "Mr Aswad is close to the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood and Iraqi Islamic
Party. He may have moved against Dr al-Mudhaffar because he had built a
relationship with the CPA, which he used to assert the independence of the
university system."

Professor Watenpaugh said Dr al-Mudhaffar was "a secularist" and "not a
Ba'athist sympathiser". "I imagine Mr Aswad will move against other university
presidents to bring universities more tightly under government control."

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